Mediation and Protest Movements

Mediation and Protest Movements
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Publisher : Intellect Books
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781841506432
ISBN-13 : 1841506435
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mediation and Protest Movements by : Bart Cammaerts

Download or read book Mediation and Protest Movements written by Bart Cammaerts and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the processes and practices that contemporary protesters use when acting with (and through) media. It covers both online and off-line contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media. It bridges the gap between social-movement theory and media and communication studies. It is an important text for students and scholars of media and social change at both a local and transnational level. Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, "Mediation and Protest Movements" explores the nature of the relationship between protest movements, media representation, and communication strategies and tactics. This approach privileges the processes and practices of interacting with and through media and thus analyses the media and communications strategies and tactics of contemporary protest movements in both online and offline contexts. It also considers media environment(s) in their complexity: from mainstream to alternative media, from traditional to new media outlets. By addressing the transnational level of contention it appeals to a wide international audience interested in how protest movements at a local as well as a transnational level engage in mediation processes and develop media practices across the globe.

Articulating Dissent

Articulating Dissent
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Publisher : Pluto Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0745333052
ISBN-13 : 9780745333052
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Articulating Dissent by : Pollyanna Ruiz

Download or read book Articulating Dissent written by Pollyanna Ruiz and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulating Dissent analyses the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on a mainstream media unaccustomed to fractured articulations of dissent. Pollyanna Ruiz shows how coalition protest movements against austerity, war and globalisation build upon the communicative strategies of older single issue campaigns such as the anti-criminal justice bill protests and the women's peace movement. She argues that such protest groups are dismissed in the mainstream for not articulating a 'unified position' and explores the way in which contemporary protesters stemming from different traditions maintain solidarity. Articulating Dissent investigates the ways in which this diversity, so inherent in coalition protest, effects the movement of ideas from the political margins to the mainstream. In doing so this book offers an insightful and original analysis of the protest coalition as a developing political form.

The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest

The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9783319701233
ISBN-13 : 3319701231
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest by : Bart Cammaerts

Download or read book The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest written by Bart Cammaerts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a set of theoretical and methodological resources are presented to study the way in which protest, resistance and social movement discourses circulate through society and looks at the role of media and of communication in this process. Empirically, the focus of this book is on the UK’s anti-austerity movement. ‘The Circuit of Protest’, as developed in this volume, is comprised of an analysis of the discourses of the anti-austerity movement and their corresponding movement frames, and the self-mediation practices geared at communicating these. The mainstream media representations and the reception of the movement discourses and frames by non-activist citizens are also studied. It is concluded that studying a movement through the prism of mediation provides a nuanced assessment in terms of failures and successes of the UK’s anti-austerity movement. The book is of relevance to students and researchers of politics, social movements, as well as media and communication, but also to activists.

The Language of Protest

The Language of Protest
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9783319774190
ISBN-13 : 3319774190
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Language of Protest by : Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill

Download or read book The Language of Protest written by Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres, from different geographies and languages. Rich with illustrative examples from Turkey, U.S., West Germany, Romania, Guatemala, Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, it examines the language of protest (chants, songs, poetry and prose) with an innovative use of analytical tools that will advance current theory. Operating at the intersection of linguistic pragmatics and critical discourse analysis this book provides fresh insights on interdisciplinary topics including power, identity, legitimacy and the Social Contract. In doing so it will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics and critical discourse analysis, in addition to researchers working in sociology, political science, discourse, cultural and communication studies.

Civic Engagement and Social Media

Civic Engagement and Social Media
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781137434166
ISBN-13 : 1137434163
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Civic Engagement and Social Media by : J. Uldam

Download or read book Civic Engagement and Social Media written by J. Uldam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social media can also help sustain civic engagement beyond protest.

Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781139503051
ISBN-13 : 1139503057
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement by : Wendy Pearlman

Download or read book Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement written by Wendy Pearlman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.

Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions

Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions
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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781839826467
ISBN-13 : 1839826460
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions by : Athina Karatzogianni

Download or read book Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions written by Athina Karatzogianni and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic contexts.